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    Don’t Turn The Lights Out

    Apr 14, 2016 4 minutes
    With Artist Derek L Newton

    Today I’m visiting the Kimberley region of Western Australia an area the size of many small countries with the help of Perth artist Beni Wright. The Kimberley and Pilbara landscape, above all other considerations revolves around painting it’s ever changing light patterns, which dependant on the time of day and weather conditions, either throws mysterious shadows over the hills and high ridges or drifts out across the dusty flats, but just a short time later the same composition may be blindingly bright as the suns reflected light dispels the shadows and reclaims the landscape.

    A Pilbara Landscape by Bernice Wright

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